IbisNibs
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I've since learned that many people whose source of income has been disrupted by covid have started their own, legit, online retail businesses and are able to get by because of that. If restrictions are imposed on such businesses because of organized criminals, I'd bet the legit mom and pop online retail businesses would take the greatest hit, since that so often seems to be the case.Organized crime is helping drive large scale theft like this. . . .the ease with which they can make a profit without any resale license makes it very lucrative.
Here's an interview by Mary Louise Kelly of NPR with journalist John Schreiber, who broke the LA train looting story:
https://www.npr.org/2022/01/17/1073...-along-los-angeles-train-tracks-following-the
The amount of waste caused by the looters is really grotesque, especially considering how many people aren't able to afford basic necessities.". . . KELLY: Yeah. I will say I've never seen anything like the images that you were posting on your Twitter feed and elsewhere. It's just this ocean of raided packages. And you have to sit and stare at it and realize this is in one of the biggest, richest cities in America. I mean, it made me wonder, is part of what's going on here just that - from COVID to unemployment, so many challenges, so many people feeling desperate? Did police or anyone you talk to tap into that?
SCHREIBER: Yeah. Everybody's just kind of scratching their heads as to why it's happening. But I can imagine. You know, there's a lot of people hurting right now, and it could be part of it. But, you know, I haven't got any exact straight answer as why."